For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its ...

A day later, George Orwell reappeared – this time wielded against US President Donald Trump after his truth-mangling suggestion that Ukraine was somehow responsible for Russia’s 2022 invasion.

One of the most famous brushes with Corryvreckan’s deadly power came in 1947, involving none other than George Orwell. The celebrated author was living on Jura at the time, working on his final ...

In the hallowed grounds of All Saints’ church in Sutton Courtenay, Oxon, George Orwell must be spinning in his grave. His classic novel 1984 laid out the framework for an authoritarian dystopian ...

I recently stumbled into a thicket of confusion surrounding the term ‘nationalism’ while reading an essay on that subject by George Orwell. He stretches the definition to encompass ...

Congratulations to Gov. Wes Moore, who has transported the State of Maryland into George Orwell’s book “1984,” where words are twisted and manipulated (“Gov. Wes Moore: ‘We’ve turned a ...

Raoul Peck, who will be at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his George Orwell documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” delivered a blistering warning about the global rise of autocracy this week ...

That's right, George Orwell created this book with the intent to show people how the masses can be manipulated through propaganda. A seriously heavy topic that wouldn't be so easily digestible if ...

There is a riveting moment in George Orwell’s novel 1984 when Winston Smith, a citizen of the totalitarian state of Oceania, opens a poorly bound book with fraying pages. Reading this work ...

Even a fellow Republican, Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, couldn’t resist: “Putin started this war,” he posted on X, adding, “I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink.” ...

And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.